SOBS 602 IMPLEMENTATION RESEARCH

Students will be exposed to the three cycles of implementation research: pre-intervention, intervention and post-intervention. Pre-intervention includes community entry techniques, the various groups of stakeholders, stakeholder consultations, cultural and social relations in the community, who is at risk and why, appropriate targeting of limited resources, practice and policy factors, baseline information on the population, understanding the community and appropriate targeting of limited resources. Intervention includes skills in testing iterative, participatory and action research techniques appropriate to interventions. It involves testing new interventions and methods. Post-intervention seeks to explain monitoring and evaluation with emphasis on behaviour change and compliance.